BIRDS IN UGANDA FORESTS 
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Museum, but proved to be Sylviella toroensis (the Toro crombec), 
of which the only previously known specimen was obtained by 
Mr. Jackson. My specimen had a tail about half an inch 
longer than the type. Closely allied to this rarity I obtained a 
new species, which I named Cryptobpha hudongoensis (the 
Budongo fly-catcher), of which a pair were obtained. 
Apalis denti (Dent’s warbler) and Alethe carruihersi 
(Carruthers’ robin-chat), both named after members of the 
Ruwensori Expedition, were also obtained. 
Those two charming birds, Dyaphorophyia castanea and 
Jamesoni, are fairly common. They seem like little balls of 
fluff in one’s hand, the very short tail hardly showing. They 
make at times a curious clicking noise when flitting about, 
apparently made with the beak. 
Erythrocercus congicus and Tro-chocercus Idbaliensis (fly- 
catchers), both species first obtained by the Alexander-Gosling 
Expedition, were obtained in the Budongo forest. 
Both Terpsiphone cristata and Emini (Paradise fly -catchers) 
are common. By-the-by, does Emini change into the white 
plumage like cristata ? 
There are just two species I should like to mention, Columba 
unicineta and Gutter a cristata. The former, a fine wood -pigeon, 
has been shot by very few collectors, and yet it is to be found 
in almost every forest in Uganda and Unyoro. It is a shy bird 
and keeps to the tops of trees and so escapes observation to a 
large extent, but early in the morning and in the evening it 
feeds lower down on trees, which the Baganda call Musasa, 
together with green pigeons. Its note is a very mournful coo-oo, 
and can easily be distinguished once learnt ; and, lastly, Gutter a 
cristata, a most lovely blue-spotted guinea-fowl, with black crest, 
I took one of these birds home alive three years ago, and 
it is, I believe, still to be seen in the Zoological Gardens. What 
was most noticeable about it was its extreme tameness almost 
immediately after being caught, and the species should thus 
be very easily domesticated. I fed it on the journey on raw 
meat and biscuits mixed up, possibly not the best diet, but it 
thrived, and when in England it remained in an aviary about 
two years, its main food being black beetles. The reason of 
its dismissal to the Zoo was, that the lady of the household 
